Manas Kumar Yogi Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Pragati Engineering College(Autonomous) Email: [email protected] Darapu Uma Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Pragati Engineering College(Autonomous) Email: [email protected] -------------------------------------------------------------------ABSTRACT-------------------------------------------------------------...

RatSLAM is a navigation system based on the neural processes underlying navigation in the rodent brain, capable of operating with low resolution monocular image data. Seminal experiments using RatSLAM include mapping an entire suburb with a web camera and a long term robot delivery trial. This paper describes OpenRatSLAM, an open-source version of RatSLAM with bindings to the Robot Operating Sy...

Virtualization Mechanisms for Mobility, Security and System Administration Shaya Potter This dissertation demonstrates that operating system virtualization is an effective method for solving many different types of computing problems. We have designed novel systems that make use of commodity software while solving problems that were not conceived when the software was originally written. We sho...

We examine capital structure changes to investigate the impact of SFAS No. 13 on lessees. While this accounting standard essentially rearranged capital lease disclosures (from footnotes to the balance sheet), mandated capitalization substantially altered key accounting ratios. Our results document a systematic substitution from capital leases to operating leases and nonlease sources of financin...

Doubly-selective wireless communication channels, i.e., those with significant selectivity in both time and frequency domains, arise in applications operating over wide bandwidths, at high carrier frequencies, and under high mobility conditions. Many systems designed to communicate over such channels are OFDMbased and employ large block lengths to combat capacity loss resulting from the use of ...

Firms’systematic risk falls (increases) sharply following investment (disinvestment). This risk dynamics is driven by real investment and not by changes in …rm characteristics and is strongest among …rms with valuable investment opportunities, highly irreversible investment and low operating leverage. Consistent with rational pricing, …rms with poor investment opportunities, those most likely t...

We propose a new point in the design space of versioning and provenance-aware file systems in which the entire operating system, not just the file system, supports such functionality. We leverage deterministic recordand-replay to substitute computation for data. This leads to a new file system design where the log of nondeterministic inputs, not file data, is the fundamental unit of persistent ...